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Last year while I was outside in my backyard at night, I saw a Bat fly away from our roof! At first I thought it was
simply a bird, but a couple of days later I saw it again. It was no doubt a bat! Our neighbor even confirmed he saw a bat at his house.

CENTIPEDES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I kill at least a dozen of those things a week!!!

ICK! I hate those things more than spiders and snakes!

Oh yeah. We sometimes have copperheads around our house. We've killed about 5 of those. We've had 2 of them sunning themselves on our back porch. I mowed over a small baby one a couple days ago when I was cutting our grass. I am incredibly thankful that I was on a tractor mower!!!!!!! I knew it was a copperhead because of the smell of cucumbers right after I ran over it.

Ran across a couple black widows as well.

We also get the deer, wild turkey, buzzards, red tailed hawks, and coyotes. We've also had 3 bears, and I think one bobcat.

Bats? We have fun with them. LOL! Put a tennis ball inside a tube sock, go out to a street light at night, and throw the sock straight up into the air and watch the bats dive bomb the tennis ball. Just got to be careful they don't dive bomb you!! LOL!

I live out in the country. I see quite a bit. My mother look out for "critters" whenever we go out. LOL! And we almost always see a few deer, and sometimes a huge flock of wild turkey!

And I was an army brat, so we lived in Panama right outside the jungle. And I saw all kinds of critters there. Tree sloths, iguanas, bird eating spiders, all kinds of monkeys, more bats and centipedes. Even ran into a pit viper nest in a sand box when I was 4!!

Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!! I love scorpions!!!! I've had quite a few of them as pets. However, I completely understand that they are pests dowm in your area Andy. If I had them loose in the house & not in cages, I'm shure I would get to dislike them fairly soon. Hey, maybe you can box one up & ship it up to me in MN

Up here we have those dang Aisan beetles. They were brought in to eat the aphids that decemate crops in the northern areas of the US in the late 90's and have been proliferating ever since. I have an older house, so every fall (after harvest when all the fields are gone) they swarm my house. I end up with letterally thousands of them coming in through every crack. they sting if you get them on you. At first I thought it was biting, but after some research, I learned that it is actually feces they excrete & its very acidic. Not pleasant!!!!! They also get in every light fixture and sit there & cook!!! Smells terrible!!!! Its not uncommon for me to wake a handfull of times in the evening when the dang things are crawling around in my bed. I go around with a vacume & vacume them up, only to have 2x as many in the house the next day. They get under the siding, and continually come n the house all winter depending on how warm it is. Know what the funny part is: the dang things don't do anything to the aphids they were shipped in to take care of!!!!!!!! Now they are talking about bringing in some kind of giant stingless wasp to take care of the beetles!!!!!!!!!! Can anyone say, "there was an old woman who swallowed a fly!!!!!!!!" Crazy!!!!!!
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Damian, I had the same probolem here last year, I got one of these kits that has a little X cross section at the top, and has a bag at the bottom. You apply this sticker of smelly stuff (DON"T GET ANYONE YOU!!!!) that applies to one of the sides of the X, and just as soon as I opened the sticker, they swarmed me and this bag. It was absoutly crazy. I went throught two bags fairly quickly, both of which where full to the brim. They fly up into the X, and then fall in to the bag and can't get out. Don't put it by your bedroom though, they got fairly loud when the bag was full.

And about not getting any on your hands....try not to...They're attracted to the smell...and well, its realy weird seeing hundreds of bettles flying over your house just to poop on you.

EDIT - YES...I forgot all about the centipedes I had here a while back. I don't like the look of them most of all. Its realy weird to see something like that in a group. When I came home once, there where 4 -6 of them on the first step of my porch. Screamed like a little girl.

Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!! I love scorpions!!!! I've had quite a few of them as pets. However, I completely understand that they are pests dowm in your area Andy. If I had them loose in the house & not in cages, I'm shure I would get to dislike them fairly soon. Hey, maybe you can box one up & ship it up to me in MN

Up here we have those dang Aisan beetles. They were brought in to eat the aphids that decemate crops in the northern areas of the US in the late 90's and have been proliferating ever since. I have an older house, so every fall (after harvest when all the fields are gone) they swarm my house. I end up with letterally thousands of them coming in through every crack. they sting if you get them on you. At first I thought it was biting, but after some research, I learned that it is actually feces they excrete & its very acidic. Not pleasant!!!!! They also get in every light fixture and sit there & cook!!! Smells terrible!!!! Its not uncommon for me to wake a handfull of times in the evening when the dang things are crawling around in my bed. I go around with a vacume & vacume them up, only to have 2x as many in the house the next day. They get under the siding, and continually come n the house all winter depending on how warm it is. Know what the funny part is: the dang things don't do anything to the aphids they were shipped in to take care of!!!!!!!! Now they are talking about bringing in some kind of giant stingless wasp to take care of the beetles!!!!!!!!!! Can anyone say, "there was an old woman who swallowed a fly!!!!!!!!" Crazy!!!!!!
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I could look into mailing one to you, I don't know how good of a condition it will be in when it arrive though!

Reminds me, I was at an FTX for ROTC, and they had the Opposing force (the cadets playing the enemy) stay in baracks at camp blanding. Anyways, in open bay barracks, I was about to get in my rack, and the cadet in the rack next to me yelled "DONT GET IN!!" He pointed, and there was this huge freakin scorpian sitting right there in the middle, minding it's own business.

Me and him proceeded to smash it with are boots...the thing just wouldnt die...

we're pretty free of nastiness here in the boston area. there are brown recluse spiders in the region, but i've never even seen one. we have an occasional black widow that gets into something that gets shipped up, but not a lot in the way of native monsters.

That god we have below freezing point temperatures around here... all the nasty poisonous stuff stays down south.

We did get the Asian beetles from your farmers. They are disgusting.

We have wolves, cougars, lynx, bears and such but I have only encountered one bear in my life... and it was up north on a fishing trip. Also had a pack of wolves near our camp (they were howling) but we never saw them. I have never been more scared in my life. At first we thought it was funny because they were maybe 2 miles away so we would answer them back at their howlings. An hour later they were 100 feet away... when we heard that first 100-feet-away howling we got chills through my bones!!